PIXELTAOhttps://jlavigne.wordpress.com
is Jonathan Lavigne's WeblogTue, 25 Jul 2017 16:23:49 +0000enhourly1http://wordpress.com/https://secure.gravatar.com/blavatar/29ce8849fd8d848090a836aed13c5c7a?s=96&d=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.pngPIXELTAOhttps://jlavigne.wordpress.com
Blog Moved To Tumblrhttps://jlavigne.wordpress.com/2013/06/09/blog-moved-to-tumblr/
https://jlavigne.wordpress.com/2013/06/09/blog-moved-to-tumblr/#respondMon, 10 Jun 2013 01:50:59 +0000http://jlavigne.wordpress.com/?p=766]]>Just a small post to say that my blog has now moved to tumblr (same address as before pixeltao.ca). I also moved most of my old posts there. I will still keep this wordpress blog live in case people would like to access some old posts or comments that I didn’t transferred. See you on tumblr!]]>https://jlavigne.wordpress.com/2013/06/09/blog-moved-to-tumblr/feed/0pixeltaoMiner Kingshttps://jlavigne.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/miner-kings/
https://jlavigne.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/miner-kings/#commentsMon, 01 Apr 2013 15:54:25 +0000http://pixeltao.ca/?p=763]]>]]>https://jlavigne.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/miner-kings/feed/3pixeltaoWar Photographshttps://jlavigne.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/war-photographs/
https://jlavigne.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/war-photographs/#commentsFri, 18 Jan 2013 21:09:30 +0000http://pixeltao.ca/?p=753]]>Here are some new Mercenary Kings screenshots:

By the way, we announced earlier this week on our Tribute Games Facebook page that we’ll be showing Mercenary Kings at the IGDA DemoNight in Montreal next Tuesday 22nd. Be there! But if you can’t attend, you’ll have another chance to see (and even play!) the game before its release at PAX East in March where we’ll have a booth.

Here’s some animations I did for Ninja Senki. It was a lot of fun animating these tiny sprites.

]]>https://jlavigne.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/ninja-senki-animations/feed/9pixeltaoboss_teleportcoindoor_spinningfrog_idlekappa_walkoni_breathronin_walkshurikensprouttengu_flyhayate_walkThe Long Lost & Forgotten Shmuphttps://jlavigne.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/the-long-lost-forgotten-shmup/
https://jlavigne.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/the-long-lost-forgotten-shmup/#commentsThu, 01 Nov 2012 03:09:19 +0000http://pixeltao.ca/?p=719]]>The second post on this blog was about a WIP Unnamed Shmup. Unfortunately, I haven’t made much progress on it since I’ve been busy with other projects. So, here’s some of the stuff I did for it.

Click on images for original size.

Since it can be a challenge to animate rotating geometry, I made a low poly model of the ship before animating it.

We’re launching a Kickstarter for Mercenary Kings today! We really want to make this game the best it can be, and to achieve that we need additional support.

We hope that people will see the huge potential of this game like we do and will be willing to participate in this adventure! Our backers will get cool rewards (the most basic one being a digital copy of Mercenary Kings and a digital copy of Wizorb).

We tried to describe Mercenary Kings as thoroughly as we could on our Kickstarter page, so you can check it out here:

As you might have guessed by our Kickstarter project image (shown above), Paul Robertson will be doing the animations for the game. On the art side, Jonathan “Persona” Kim, and Stéphane Boutin are also involved in the project, so you can be sure that it’s gonna feature some fancy graphics!

]]>https://jlavigne.wordpress.com/2012/08/14/kickstarting-mercenary-kings/feed/3pixeltaomerckingsfuuuckyeah_whiteTarot Villagehttps://jlavigne.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/tarot-village/
https://jlavigne.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/tarot-village/#commentsWed, 18 Jul 2012 15:59:28 +0000http://pixeltao.ca/?p=684]]>I’ve been wanting to post some backgrounds of Wizorb for a while, but I didn’t want to spoil any surprises. So, here’s what I did: click on the first thumbnail to display the destroyed version of Tarot village (this one is obviously spoiler free), or click on the second one to display the fully rebuilt version (spoiler alert!).

In related news, Wizorb is currently part of the summer sale on Steam (until July 23). It’s 40% off, so you can get it for only $1.79 USD! Also, if you haven’t had enough Wizorb and you’d like to play it on a Playstation console, the PS Minis version of the game developed by Beatshapers will be out on July 24.

This is the first footage of our current game project at Tribute Games, Mercenary Kings! The game is currently in an early prototype stage, so a lot might still change. The music for the trailer was provided by Patrice Bourgeault and the animations were done by Paul Robertson.